Cara is an Indiana born and raised girl. Columbia, Missouri marks the first time she has lived outside of Indiana and she couldn’t be more excited!

Going back to her childhood, she has 8 8’s on her birth certificate! Ask her why and she will explain! Cara is the middle child and proof that the middle child stereotype is false. She has an incredible family and she never forgets how blessed she is to have them.

When Cara was 16, she found her future by following a classmate to the Broadcasting Program offered at “career day.” Ever since that moment she hasn’t left the mic! Cara considers music her “escape” and loves that her “job” revolves around it!

She remembers when she received her first baseball glove at 5 years old and has been stuck ever since! Bottom line, she is a Cardinals fan & a Bengals fan!

She is new to the area and would love for her to send her “get to know you” questions!

Scotty is originally from Cape Girardeau, MO. He started his fruitful career as a paperboy. When Scotty was in 5th grade, his brother was a patient at St. Jude’s and his dad helped organize a radiothon. These were the days when stations didn’t really hold radiothons, so it wasn’t a big deal. Scotty went to school to collect money the day of the radiothon and delivered it to the station. The station was based out of trailer and for some reason he was hooked! He was fortunate enough to get his very first radio job with a station he had grown up listening too!

Over Scotty’s years being in the Country Music Radio Station arena, he has had some incredible opportunities to see amazing concerts, meet artists, and of course his favorite part, meet the listeners! His first “real” concert was Huey Lewis & the News and The Robert Cray Band at SIU Arena in Carbondale. It was his first of many road trips to a concert! This was the moment he knew “It was hip to be square.”

If you ask Scotty who his favorite artist is, he’ll tell you “I have 100 songs on my “top 10 songs of all time” list. In his opinion James Taylor is the greatest artist of all time, followed VERY closely by Merle Haggard. He did not grow up listening to old country but when he came to it later life, he completely immersed himself in it!

Scotty has one thing in particular on his “bucket list.” He wants to dunk a basketball! It is ONE thing he has never done but would LOVE to experience. Scotty and his “mates” used to play around on an 8-foot basketball hoop and he was tall enough to dunk on that one. However, he always wished he could do it just once on the real 10-foot hoop!

Clear 99 has been an incredible blessing for Scotty over the past 10 years. It’s a heritage station with great & loyal listeners. Occasionally he does miss his small town high school basketball play-by-play. Early in his career he spent every Tuesday & Friday night in a high school gym, and he misses the squeak of the shoes and the smell of the popcorn.

Alison “Ali” is originally from Roseville, California where she started her fun adventure that landed her at Clear 99. Her love for radio was discovered in 8th grade, while listening to the local radio station interviewing *Nsync she refused to get out of the car, insisting to listen until it was over because she was in “LOVE.”

Music has always been a huge influence to Ali. The first song she learned to sing perfectly (her parents would disagree) in the shower was LeAnn Rimes, “One Way Ticket.”

Family is the most important thing for Ali. She feels blessed and extremely grateful to have people she can count on for anything. Her Mom, Dad and big Brother mean the world to her.

She loves two great American pastimes: Football and Baseball! She was raised as a SF Giants and 49ers fan, but don’t worry, everyone at Clear 99 has let her know she now needs to root for the Cardinals and Chiefs. And she’s REALLY excited for her first ever Mizzou tailgate this fall!

Ali is so happy to be in Columbia and honored to be a part of your day! If you ever have any questions, then please just ask.

Jamie comes from a small town known as Columbia, IL. Some may ask why Jamie ever wanted to be in radio? Well, it all started when his was a small child. His grandfather had his very own radio station in the basement where he would “play” radio. Turns out Jamie is still a kid “playing” radio on Clear99. Lucky guy!

His journey towards a long radio career began humbly at Imo’s (The Square Beyond Compare) as a pizza boy. You could say this was the most pivotal moment in his career but his first “official” radio job in Marshall could fill this title as well.

J Mac spends most free nights at concerts in the area. Very rarely is there a concert he misses. It is hard for Jamie to even begin sorting through which concert was his favorite but Farm Aid 2001 is what first comes to mind.

“He shoots, he scores!” No, this wasn’t the TV in Josh’s home where he grew up. It was Josh, at 8-years-old, announcing the St. Louis Blues game in his living room. When most kids are asked what they want to be when they grow up, answers range from fireman to police officer to astronaut. Not in this case. Josh always wanted to be on the radio, so he followed his dream and graduated from the Broadcast Center in December of 2007.

He started out as a waiter at both Denny’s and Texas Longhorn. Then, he was a valet at Ameristar. Although both valid career options, Josh knew he was destined for radio. His first job was in Marshall on a small country station, KMMO. He eventually came to Clear 99 and if you ask him, he will tell you he got the job just by being awesome.

The strangest thing that has ever happened to Josh while working at Clear 99 was when a listener called to ask what was on the Sci-Fi channel that night. Josh will not admit if he looked it up or just happened to know off the top of his head. However, everyone who knows Josh will know that he didn’t need to look that up.

Josh says he loves working in radio because he is able to experience things that he wouldn’t normally be able to do anywhere else. One major example is when he proposed to his wife in front of the Rascal Flatts in January 2012.

Josh is very close with my family, he loves spending time with my kids (his son plays baseball and his daughter is in dance!). They have two little dogs at home… Frank and Bean!

Amber Gale is small town Missouri, born and raised. Salisbury, MO is where her roots were laid. Growing up in a small town, Amber Gale always had dreams bigger than her town: from being a pastry chef to Broadway performer to stylist for stars to ESPN sideline reporter. She never thought radio would be were she’d end up until she started college at the University of Missouri in Columbia.

When she was little, Amber Gale always loved country music. She would dance around singing Lee Ann Womack’s “I Hope You Dance” and LeAnn Rimes’ “Blue”. She got her first solo in her 2nd Grade performance in Three Billy Goats Gruff, after that her love for performing never stopped. Performing in tons of talent shows and local competition lead her to eventually try for her life long dream of being a country music star by auditioning for NBC’s The Voice.

After two No’s Amber Gale put a pause on her singing dreams to pursue a career a little more realistic while she works on her Radio/TV Broadcasting degree through the School of Journalism at Mizzou. She has fallen in love with radio, and knows now this is always where she was suppose to be, because as they say “if you’re doing what you love, you never work a day in your life.”

Amber Gale is also a fluid concertgoer. After going to her first concert in early elementary school—she doesn’t recall who the headliner was, but Kenny Chesney was there and, at that age, that was really all that mattered. Now she attends as many as her wallet will allow her!

Her favorite concert experience, so far, was when she spontaneously road tripped to Springfield, MO, to see Tyler Farr, Florida Georgia Line, and Jason Aldean with her best friend.

Besides music, Amber Gale loves sports and played softball throughout her childhood until she graduated. She is a huge Mizzou Tigers and Kansas City Chiefs fan!

Amber Gale also enjoys traveling, and hopes to visit all 50 states and 6 of the 7 continents (Antarctica is way too cold).